Thousands of people _______ to watch yesterday’s match against Ireland．

A．turned on        B．turned in        C．turned around           D．turned out

The old man asked Lucy to move to another chair _______ he wanted to sit next to his wife．

A．a(chǎn)lthough           B．unless          C．because          D．if

I _______ all the cooking for my family, but recently I’ve been too busy to do it．

A．will do             B．do            C．a(chǎn)m doing               D．had done

I agree to his suggestion  ______the condition that he drops all charges．

A．by              B．in                  C．on                 D．to 

The new movie  _____to be one of the biggest money-makers of all time．

A．promises               B．a(chǎn)grees            C．pretends              D．declines

The fact that she was foreign made _____difficult for her to get a job in that country.

A．so                B．much                  C．that            D．it

--It’s no use having ideas only．

--Don’t worry．Peter can show you ________to turn an idea into an act．

A．how                    B．who                    C．what                    D．where

Alexander tried to get his work _______in the medical circles．

A．to recognize         B．recognizing          C．recognize              D．recognized

When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary．I was __1___to see that it was an English dictionary, also known as a monolingual dictionary．_2___it was a dictionary intended for non—native learners, none of my classmates had one __3__, to be honest, I found it extremely __4_ to use at first． I would look up words in the dictionary and _5__ not fully understand the meaning, I was used to the __6__ bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are _7__ both in English and Chinese, I really wondered why my aunt __8_ to make things so difficult for me．Now, after studying English at university for three years, I _9__ that monolingual dictionaries are __10_ in learning a foreign language

    As I found out, there is __11_ often no perfect equivalence（對(duì)應(yīng)）between two _12___ in two languages．My aunt even goes so far as to 13___ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the __14___ meaning of a word in English! ___15_ , she insisted that I read the definition（定義）of a world in a monolingual dictionary __16___ I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning．____17__, I have come to see what she meant．

Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way．This dictionary uses a（n）   18    number of words, around 2, 000, in its definitions．When I read these definitions, I am    19   exposed to（接觸）the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas．  20  this, I can express myself more easily in English．

1．A．worried              B．sad              C．surprised         D．nervous

2．A．Because             B．Although           C．Unless           D．If

3．A．but                 B．so                C．or               D．a(chǎn)nd

4．A．difficult             B．interesting        C．a(chǎn)mbiguous        D．practical

5．A．thus                B．even             C．still               D．a(chǎn)gain

6．A．new                B．familiar            C．earlier             D．ordinary

7．A．explained            B．expressed          C．described                D．created

8．A．offered             B．a(chǎn)greed           C．decided            D．happened

9．A．imagine             B．recommend       C．predict           D．understand

10．A．natural            B．better            C．easier              D．convenient

11．A．a(chǎn)t best           B．in fact             C．a(chǎn)t times          D．in case

12．A．words           B．names           C．ideas              D．characters

13．A．hope              B．declare            C．doubt             D．tell

14．A．exact              B．basic            C．translated          D．expected

15．A．Rather           B．However         C．Therefore        D．Instead

16．A．when            B．before           C．until              D．while

17．A．Largely          B．Generally          C．Gradually          D．Probably

18．A．extra            B．a(chǎn)verage          C．total                D．limited

19．A．repeatedly        B．nearly           C．immediately           D．a(chǎn)nxiously

20．A．According to      B．In relation to      C．In addition to         D．Because of

It was a village in India．The people were poor．However, they were not unhappy．After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries．

Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived．The told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog’s legs．However, they did not have enough frogs of their own ,and so they wanted to buy frogs from other place．

This seemed like money for nothing．There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and  they were no use to the villagers．All they had to do was catch them．Agreement was reached ,and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs．Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money．For the first time , the people were able to dream of a better future ,But the dream didn’t last long．

The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well．More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately．

The villagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak．They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides（殺蟲劑）and medicines．Soon there was no money left．

Then the people realized what was happening．It was the frog．They hadn’t been useless．They had been doing an important job---eating insects．Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were

increasing more rapidly．They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases．

   Now, the people are still poor．But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs．These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning．

1．From paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers  __________．

A．worked very hard for centuries 

B．dreamed of having a better life 

C．were poor but somewhat content

D．lived a different life from their forefathers

2．Why did the villagers agree to sell frogs ?

A．the frogs were easy money 

B．they needs money to buy medicine

C．they wanted to please the visitors

D．the frogs made too much noise

3．What might be the cause of the children’s sickness?

A．the crops didn’t do well

B．there were too many insects

C．the visits brought in diseases

D．the pesticides were overused

4．What can we infer from the last sentence of the text?

A．Happiness comes from peaceful life in the country

B．Health is more important than money

C．The harmony between man and nature is important

D．Good old days will never be forgotten